TDM 002

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TDM 002: IF FOUND PLEASE RETURN TO

( 1 ) Around mid-morning, a message from the Augur appears on bracelets all across the city. "New organisms discovered. Domestication in progress." The wark of a chocobo rises up from the outskirts of the city. Several more join in, forming a charming chorus. And, strangely, this is when new arrivals begin to show up. Beamed in one at a time, scanned en masse, they are processed just as the first wave was. There's one major difference: whereas the old guard was given their bracelets and ushered into the City, the new folks are also given... collars. Buckled, snapped, or otherwise fastened around their necks, a variety of colorful collars with some rather unusual novelty pet tags. (These are just a few suggestions. The typical “If found, please return to ____” is also very much acceptable.) "You are new organisms. Domestication in progress. Compatible Eros energy will complete domestication." No matter how hard they try, characters cannot take the collars off by themselves. They need a partner's help - but not just anyone will do. It very well might be the first person they find, or it might take several tries. The robots grow bolder as the day grows on, targeting characters who aren't new, as well. "Y̶o̶u̴ ̸a̷r̸e̷ ̵o̵r̵g̶a̴n̷i̷s̶m̸s̶.̶ ̶D̷o̶m̴e̴s̶t̶i̶c̵a̸t̶i̸o̴n̸ ̷i̵n̸ ̴p̸r̶o̵g̷r̵e̷s̵s̷." Their antics die down by nightfall, but for the next day or two, the occasional malfunctioning 'bot may accost someone in the street, so stay on your toes! ( 2 ) An abandoned racetrack lights up the night. That's right: place your bets, folks, because these birds are about to run around a track while robots sell synthetic, overpriced aphro-popcorn. ...Did you say priced? That’s right! If you participated in the orgy earlier this month, you'll find you have a stash of credits accessible in your app. You've fucked money back into the world, so why not waste it? (Opportunities to earn credits will come up periodically and won't always be sexual in nature, so don't worry if your character wouldn't have any yet.) And if you don't have credits to bet with, why not get creative? ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● N A V I G A T I O N

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2 | solamente por la noche

[revvedup]

[ max isn't usually one for combat that isn't hand to hand, but she can at least do some damage to these things without the use of a gun. one's cornered her as she was taking out another with a steel rod, smacking it over the top of the machine before she finds a crack in its casing an shoves it inside, twisting until it goes motionless.

she should hear its twin approaching, but she doesn't until its almost too late. it might have been too late if not for something else attacking it - someone else, it turns out, because not too far away is a woman with hair the same color as the force that's tearing apart her would-be assailant.

she's something out of the ordinary herself, even before she got the power implementing glowbox in her chest. but even in new amsterdam and since arriving here she'd never seen anything like what she's displaying, and her eyes go a little wide with gratitude. ]

Thanks for that.

[mutants]

My pleasure.

[ With the robot in pieces, Lorna can take stock of the field at ease. The city is post-industrial, meaning plenty of metal everywhere. While getting her bracelet strapped on, she noted several more; presumably, every abductee gets one. She can sense one on this woman, as well as a unique mass at the centre of her chest.

She's as curious about that as the Thunderbird-like strength she demonstrated on her own attacker. Lorna nods at the heap of scrap. ]

You do good work yourself.

[revvedup]

[ with both attackers disabled, max is fairly tempted to drop her makeshift weapon, but she knows that's a bad idea with the amount of robots still going skynet on their citizens (not that she knows to make that reference). she glances behind her at the thing she's reduced to scrap metal before regarding the other woman again with a shrug. ]

Thanks. I'm a little out of my element, the things I fight usually have a pulse.

[mutants]

Same. And guns.

[ Lorna doesn't sound like she minds the change, though. Cleaner, strategically and morally, to fully disable a mechanical threat than to intimidate a flesh-and-blood one into backing down. ]

[revvedup]

[ she doesn't mind it either, or wouldn't if these things were still in charge of providing them with things they need to survive. she can't deny that tearing it apart was pretty satisfying, though. ]

Same. [ at least these things don't have those. ] You're new here?

[mutants]

Yeah. I thought everyone was.

[ Implying "You're not?" and "How long have you been here?" Lorna doesn't love feeling so lost, much less expressing it. ]

[revvedup]

I guess that's relative, I've been here about a month. When I first got here there was way less that the place had to offer and the sex bots were a lot more accommodating.

[ she glances over her shoulder, hearing something approaching. her grip tightens on the makeshift weapon and she hefts it into a swinging position. ]

We've got company coming.